Migration a lifeline for drought-stricken Dubbo

By Robert Milliken
November 16 2019 - 3:30am

It's Saturday morning in Dubbo, about 400 kilometres northwest of Sydney. The sky is grey, not from rain clouds but from a dust storm whipping topsoil off distant properties devastated by drought. The Macquarie River, which runs through town and feeds into the Murray-Darling system, is covered in green sludge and has long stopped flowing. The outlook should be bleak, and yet Dubbo is booming.

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